Re: Real-Time Network monitoring

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister_at_localhost.localdomain)
Date: 02/01/04 

Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 18:07:18 GMT

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 18:58:41 +0100, Damjan wrote:

> Do the hub have buil-in firewall and monitoring tools, or how can I wiht hub
> monitoring traffic that is between other computers?

a hub is the cheapest/no feature pice of hardware.
It is dumb. When you ping one of your systems, the hub brodcasts the
ping to all the ports on the hub. When it does that and the other
systems try to talk to someone else they have to back off and wait
until the line is clear.

A switch is a litle smarter. It sends the ping to the target machine
and the other boxes can talk to other machines connected to the switch
at the same time.

Now your router, has the most brains. The features on the router will
depend on the bucks you want to pay with.

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